Overview
- Features essays on female characters in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones such as Daenerys Targaryen, Melisandre, Arya Stark, Cersei Lannister, and Margaery Tyrell, focusing on how they wielded power in their male-dominated world
- Explores the intersection of academic scholarship on queenship and elite women and popular understandings of the premodern period
- Highlights the strategies that premodern women used to exert power and influence
Part of the book series: Queenship and Power (QAP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Female Agency
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The Role of Advice
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lisa Benz is the author of Three Medieval Queens: Queenship and the Crown in Fourteenth-Century England (Palgrave, 2012) and the co-editor with Zita Eva Rohr of Queenship, Gender and Reputation in the Medieval and Early Modern West, 1060–1600 (Palgrave, 2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queenship and the Women of Westeros
Book Subtitle: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire
Editors: Zita Eva Rohr, Lisa Benz
Series Title: Queenship and Power
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25041-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25040-9Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25043-0Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25041-6Published: 07 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-938X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9398
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXXIV, 263
Topics: History of Medieval Europe, Women's Studies, History of Early Modern Europe, Fiction